Let These Stones
Speak: Strasburg Township and
Borough, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania- Buy it now for
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This CD set contains high resolution
photographs of every
tombstone in Strasburg Township and Borough,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, arranged alphabetically and by
location in 19 unique cemeteries.

"Let These Stones Speak" is an interactive
visual presentation of each cemetery, tombstone by tombstone. The
tombstones are linked together on the CD in the same order they
appear in the cemetery, giving the effect of actually walking through
the cemetery, visiting the resting places of your
ancestors.

The tombstones are also linked through an
index, so one may quickly find the name of the individual of interest
and click directly to the specified tombstone photograph.

Tombstone photographs may be printed or pasted
into your personal genealogy program.

Below is a list of the
cemeteries found on Let
These Stones Speak,
Strasburg Township and Borough. The number of documented individuals
on the CD for each cemetery is found in parentheses following the
cemetery name.

1. Barr Family Graveyard (former
site) (2): This graveyard was formerly located north-west of
Hessdale, along the road formerly known as Stoney Lane. The graveyard
was covered over sometime after 1890.

2. Bassler Family Graveyard (12):
This graveyard is located in the wooded area east of rt. 222 and
north of Refton.

3. Brackbill-Neff Family Graveyard
(151): This graveyard is the original graveyard of the Mennonite
community in Strasburg. It is located south of Twin Elm Road, east of
Hagers Road.

4. Bunker Hill Old Order Amish
Cemetery (102): This cemetery was started in the 1960s and serves the
Old Order Amish community of Strasburg Township. It is located north
of Dieter Road, west of Bunker Hill Road.

5. Eckman-Kunkle Family Graveyard
(45): This graveyard was used by the German Reformed Church prior to
the origin of Zion Reformed Church, which became Zion United Church
of Christ.

7. Howery Family Graveyard (15):
This graveyard is walled and sits on the hill above Hartman Bridge
Road, directly in front of the Amish Lanterns Motel.

8. Lefevre Family Graveyard (64):
This graveyard is well maintained and south of North Star Road, next
of a one-room schoolhouse currently used by the Amish.

9. Martin Family Graveyard (9):
This neglected graveyard is located in a wooded area on the slope of
a hillside north of Deiter Road and west of Bachman Road.

10. Old Dutch Lutheran and
Reformed Graveyard (former site) (7): This graveyard was formerly
located on the southwest corner of Rt 896 (Georgetown Road) and Iva
Road.

11. Ranck Family Graveyard (former
site) (0): This graveyard was formerly located south of North Star
Road, and West of Fairview Road. The graveyard was shown on the 1875
township map, but did not exist when the area was checked in
1981.

12. St Michael Lutheran Church
Cemetery (399): This cemetery was founded as early as 1760, and in
1806 became the location of the St Michael Lutheran Church.

13. Shultz Family Graveyard (14):
These tombstones are sitting as a pile adjacent to the original
graveyard site. The graveyard is located on the top of a slope west
of Brenneman Road south of Little Beaver Creek.

14. Strasburg Cemetery (1,986):
This is the public cemetery in Strasburg Borough. It is located on
the south side of Franklin Street, just west of the Presbyterian
Church Cemetery and was founded by 1866, when it was charted in the
Lancaster County courts.

15. Strasburg Mennonite Church
Cemetery (3,705): This cemetery was started about 1804, after the
Mennonite Meetinghouse was constructed on this site.

16. Strasburg Methodist Cemetery
(former site) (20): This cemetery was formerly located on the
southeast corner of the intersection of South Decatur Street and Funk
Street, south of the square in Strasburg. The church currently exists
as a dwelling, and the cemetery formerly existed in the lawn next to
this dwelling. It is uncertain what has become of these
tombstones.

17. Strasburg Presbyterian Church
Cemetery (105): This cemetery is located directly west of the
Strasburg Presbyterian Church, found on the south west corner of
Decatur Street and Franklin Street, Strasburg.

18. Wesley United Methodist Church
Cemetery (201): This cemetery is located directly behind the Wesley
United Methodist Church, on the south side of west Main Street,
Strasburg, Pa. The cemetery was started about 1839.

19. Zion Hill United Church of
Christ Cemetery (1,275): This church and cemetery are found at Winter
Hill Road, east of Rt. 222.

Let These Stones
Speak, Volume 5, Strasburg
Township and Borough, is a necessary research tool if you have
interest in the above surnames, the above cemeteries, or have any
ancestral or family connections to Strasburg Township or Borough,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Please visit the Bookstore if you have interest in adding this CD to
your genealogical collection.